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this FH W6 r' syi iMm morru The Morning News, Wilmington. Saturday. July 26. 1975 Page 21 Slain woman's absence from work stirred fears 7M Lh wf ''Wi Home where slaying victim Mrs. Mary (Staff photo by Ron Dubick) Amelia Allen lived alone in Claymont ByPhilMilford and Donald Woutat It was so unlike 73-year-old Mary Amelia Allen not to show up for work that her boss, after getting no answer on the phone, spent all day Thursday trying to track -down relatives to see what was wrong.

The fears were borne out in brutal fashion: Mrs. Allen had been murdered in the bedroom of her tidy home at 301 Gov. Printz A daughter-in-law, contacted by the employer, discovered the bloodied body in the bedroom about 4 p.m. Thursday. Mrs.

Allen's clothing had been torn off and she had been stabbed several times. State police detectives can find no motive. The killer, or killers, apparently entered the bungalow through an unlocked rear door after p.m. Wednesday, the last time she was seen alive, and before 10 a.m. Thursday, the first time coworkers tried to phone her.

Police said she was attacked in the bathroom, dragged into the front bedroom and stabbed repeatedly. Rape, originally suspected by the daughter-in-law, Margaret Allen of 106 Shelley Ashbourne Hills, was ruled out when the medical examiner found no evidence of sexual assault, police said. There was no sign of robbery or burglary. Police said the immaculate home was orderly and nothing has been discovered missing. Detectives are questioning neighbors, friends and relatives and continuing to search for the murder weapon, believed to be a knife.

Mrs. Allen, according to neigh- bors, was widowed about 2 years ago. Her husband, Floyd, had been retired. They had lived in the house more than 20 years. She had worked for the last 9 years at LeRoy's Feminine Fashions, 832 Market said manager Cora Johnston.

Ms. Johnston said that when Mrs. Allen didn't come to work at 10 a.m. Thursday, she and other workers started phoning the home. She then starting dialing Aliens in the phone book until just before 4 p.m., when she reached Mr.

Allen's son, Ralph. He sent his wife, Margaret, to the home and the slaying was discovered. "Her sons told her to move out of the house," Ms. Johnston said. "They didn't like her living alone.

But she said she loved her home and didn't want to leave. "She was just a nice person." Mrs. Allen's 23-year-old neigh- notice anything unusual about the house. The door was closed and the shades were drawn, he said. "A lot of people thmK sne was a strange woman," Oberg said.

"She kept to herself and her flowers. She always talked about the weather or her flowers. She never asked me any personal questions like who I date or anything." Oberg said that Wednesday night in the garage Mrs. Allen was worried about plans to widen Palace Ave. and wondered whether she would have to move her roses.

He said she usually rode a 9:30 a.m. bus into Wilmington and always returned promptly at 5:40 p.m. Oberg said he knew her schedule because he kept his car in her garage and was always "working on it." Oberg said he talked to her in the garage Wednesday night, apparently the last conversation she had and the last time she was seen alive except by the killer. That conversation occurred between 7:30 and 8 p.m., Oberg said. He said he noticed her light still on at 9:45 p.m.

He said he went to work about 7:55 a.m. the next day and didn't Equipment said to hinder cops Tar but ton sobs after receiving 30-yr. sentence By William P. Frank Delaware's police agencies on all levels suffer from outdated communications equipment, thus "hampering competent law enforcement," according to a Delaware Agency to Reduce Crime (DARC) staff report. This report, which pinpoints some of the major problems in the state's criminal justice system, will eventually become part of the 1976 comprehensive plan of the DARC.

The report states that different police agencies in Delaware do not have the capability of cross-monitoring each other's communications. The staff cites, as an example of the problem, what happened during a civil disturbance in Newark in the spring of 1974. "Four different police departments," the report states, "operating in the area, had little or no knowledge of each other's activities. This resulted not only in inefficient deployment but also in the potential danger to the parties involved. Situations such as these would be prevented by the acquisition of technology to make possible a statewide cross monitoring capability." DARC, chaired by Gov.

Sherman W. Tribbitt, is the agency through which the U.S. Law Enforcement Assistant Administration funnels millions of dollars for a vast variety of programs intended to reduce crime in the state. The purpose of the recent report by the staff of DARC is to stress some of the major problems facing the various segments of the state's criminal justice system. The report also claims there is "no statewide planning capability for police departments to offer youth aid services." bor, Robert F.

Oberg Jr. of 2 Palace said he and his father arrived home about the time Margaret Allen discovered the body. She ran next door to the Obergs. "She's in there lying in a pool of blood she looks like she was raped." Oberg quoted the daughter-in-law as saying. Young Oberg said he knew the victim "probably better than anybody" and described how she often arose early to tend her flowers and routinely left her door unlocked or ajar when she was home.

totm is suspected A still-unidentified girl who was-run over and killed near Delaware City Wednesday night might have been killed intentionally, state police say. They base their speculation on the fact that minutes before she was struck, she had gone to a nearby gas station looking for a ride and said she'd just had a fight with a boyfriend. That and the failure of anyone to come forth to identify the body, especially the boyfriend, has made detectives suspicious, police said. The girl, aged 16 to 18, was hit by a maroon vehicle about 11 p.m. on Delaware 72 just east of U.S.

13, police said. The impact knocked her about 80 feet. She is white, 5 feet 5Vi and 124 pounds, with freckles and shoulder-length dirty-blonde hair. She was barefoot and wore hip-hugger blue jeans and a pink knit pullover. A thin wire bracelet was on her right wrist and a woven wire ring on her right index finger, police said.

The girl, crying and upset, had gone to the gas station to ask for a ride to the Hockessin area and said she'd been fighting with her boyfriend, police said. When nobody could give her a ride, she said she would walk to her married sister's home in Delaware City. She hadn't walked far along 72 before being struck. No vehicle was seen, but police said paint samples indicate it was maroon. lottery New Jersey Friday winner: 32051 as her cousin Kenny prowess.

The -v Meredith Tarbutton tion. Clark said he'd visited his client 30 to 35 times since he was sent to the hospital nearly a year ago and "his self-esteem is at an all-time low." "By failing to receive proper treatment, not only is he not maintaining the status quo, he's regressing," Clark charged. Tarbutton has been labeled a "pedophiliac" an adult who sexually desires children. Dr. T.

R. Huxtable a state hospital psychiatrist, was quoted by Levin as saying the condition is not treatable. "Does that mean that we send him to prison?" Levin demanded. He argued Tarbutton didn't belong there and would be in real danger, since child molesters are the most scorned of inmates. Neither Levin nor Clark recommended a specific sentence on the sex charges, saying simply that hospital confinement would satisfy his need for help and society's need for safety.

Newark road closed Sandy Brae Rd. in Newark from Chestnut Hill Rd. to U.S. 40 will be closed starting Monday by the division of highways for 5 months to rebuild a bridge. Detours around the closed section will be marked.

managed to remain calm yesterday JL1. The report says, "The services that are now being demanded of police youth aid sections are varied and diversified. The delivery of these services is often complicated by youth mobility, which transcends jurisdictional boundaries. No one police of youth service agency can deal with the myriad problems of juvenile crime and delinquency." Other highlights of the critical areas in the criminal justice system, according to the report, are: "One of the major problems in crime prevention is public apathy. There is a need to make robbery and burglary more difficult to commit through 'hardening of public education and active citizen group participating with police education and active citizen group participating with police in preventing activities." There is presently no coordination of efforts by police agencies to develop a reliable statewide police radio communications system.

Police response time remains "at a sub-optimum level." Previous attempts to make the national emergency 911 telephone number available to Delaware citizens have fallen short of implementation There is no realistic minimum salary for police officers in the state. There are no established minimum standards for recruitment of Delaware police officers. A consistent level of police services is not available to residents throughout the state of Delaware. Too many local police agencies in Delaware cannot provide 24-hour service to their jurisdictions. Possible sharing of equipment and auxiliary services is underutilized by police agencies in Delaware.

from prosecution for the same offense. Both men were indicted June 18 when the grand jury also returned indictments against County Executive Melvin A. Slawik, County Personnel Director Bruce A. Uffelman, and builders Mario Capano and Daniel D. Rappa.

The four were charged with conspiracy and obstruction of justice and Slawik additionally with extortion and perjury. Hoffman would not say whether he will seek reindictments against Casey and Acierno when the grand jury convenes next week. He also refused comment on a prediction by a source earlier this week that the indictments against the other four would be dismissed and new indictments sought. Attorneys for the defendants have said in papers filed with dismissal motions that the original indictments, which were sought by former Asst. U.S.

Atty. David B. Hooper, were poorly drawn and inadequate to sustain the charges made. Acierno could not be reached for comment, but Casey said of the dismissals, "It's the only thing the government has done in this case that I agree with." able to treatment," the prosecutor insisted, and should get the maximum 81-year prison term on the two charges of sodomy and three of sexual misconduct before the court. Judge Robert C.

O'Hara wasn't willing to go that far, and he didn't fully accept either side's view of Tarbutton. He said he had "some sympathy" for the defendant, who had "been a troubled young man for some time," but the charges were very serious and the victims very young. The string of sex charges 36 others were dropped when Tarbutton pleaded guilty to the five were an outgrowth of the investigation of Bobby Johnson's killing. Police discovered that Tarbutton had been luring boys as young as 8 and 9 into the woods near Rock-ford Park and giving them small sums of money for sexual acts. According to his own confession to psychiatrists.

Tarbutton went berserk last Aug. 11 and stabbed Bobby Johnson to death because the little boy threatened to tell about one such incident. At a hearing 4 months ago. O'Hara acquitted Tarbutton of murder on grounds of insanity and ordered him held at the state hospital. When or if the court is satisfied he's no longer dangerous, he must be transferred to the Delaware Correctional Center to serve the 30-year term, receiving full credit for his time in the hospital.

"The reports I get are that you are doing quite well, beginning to get some insight into your problems," the judge told Tarbutton yesterday. Tarbutton mumbled agreement, but one of his lawyers took excep- MlLAlj Ju7 McGonigle By Virginia Delavan Meredith Tarbutton was sentenced yesterday to 30 years in prison for having sex with five living boys. But a sixth he killed was in everyone's thoughts. Though the hulking, mentally retarded housepainter had confessed and been judged legally insane, he sobbed and screamed in Superior Court: "Oh, God. I didn't kill nobody.

I didn't kill Bobby Johnson." The dead 7-year-old and the overwhelming evidence that Tarbutton did murder him also weighed heavily with the defense lawyers and prosecutor. But each side saw the killer quite differently- To Richard D. Levin and John A. Clark III. assistant public defenders.

Tarbutton was a sick man who should remain indefinitely in the Delaware State Hospital, not be imprisoned. Tarbutton. 23, of 49 Ivy was labeled a "walking time bomb" by Deputy Atty. Gen. Peter J.

Bosch. He had proved himself "not amen- Food Stamp deadline Old 50-cent, $2 and $5 food stamp coupons, being replaced by new $1, $5 and $10 coupons, may still be redeemed at food stores and meal services until Aug. 31. After that date, however, grocers will not be permitted to accept the old coupons. To exchange the old stamps for the new federally issued ones after Aug.

31, contact the food stamp office in the Market Towers. i 1U -fiH, mm i mi Casey, Acierno charges dismissed "TT -1 mifmmtti 1 if lit, AW msi i fit liiiii i ii Miff mi run iiia By Tom Greer Federal indictments charging County Councilman Andrew J. (Jack) Casey, R-Maplechase, with extortion and builder Frank E. Acierno with not reporting it were dismissed yesterday in U.S. District Court.

Motions by Asst. U.S. Atty. Alan J. Hoffman to dismiss the indictments were granted by Judge Walter K.

Stapleton. The dismissals, however, are "without prejudice," leaving the door open for the prosecutor to seek reindictment at a later date. Casey was accused of extorting rent-free use of a vacation trailer owned by Acierno by threatening to use his council post to block rezoning sought by Acierno for a shopping center project. Acierno was accused of misprision of a felony not reporting the alleged crime. The motion relating to Casey's indictment said it failed to sufficiently set forth all essential elements necessary for conviction.

As to Acierno, the motion said his indictment failed to specify adequately the crime alleged to have been committed by Casey, so as to not adequately assure Acierno mUIIC I JUL Lilt! ULIICf MOrtnipe demonstrated what appears to be his wWli Vllv vlllvl coo)ed 0( on Qrant st photo by pat Crow 7,.